Weathering has always been a mystery to me. I have tried Floquil, Poly Scale, pigments, Vallejo acrylics and now MIG Ammo oils. The last three are now my go-to approach. I have found it useful to layer effects using acrylic washes followed by washes of oil. I must credit Lee Turner for showing me the…
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I got some Henri et Victoria 2.0 shave soap in limes. I also got some of the matching aftershave balm.
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MAKES BRUSHING FUN: Cute and colorful animal-themed set is perfectly designed to make brushing easy and fun for little brushers ages 3 and up. PROMOTES GOOD BRUSHING HABITS: Fun 2-minute sand timer encourages children to brush long enough to thoroughly clean their teeth and gums.
-PROMOTES HEALTHY GUMS - Dog dental kit is gentle yet effective in reducing tartar buildup, eliminating dog's bad breath, and whitening and brightening your dog's teeth -EASY TO USE - For first time brushers, put a small amount of toothpaste on your finger and invite the dog to lick it off. Slowly progress to rubbing your finger along the gum line and teeth. For best results, brush 2-3 times per week
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About this item Your Kid's New Favorite Toothbrush: Make brushing fun with this cute and colorful, animal-themed electric toothbrush for kids that’s designed for brushers ages 3 or older to promote healthy oral hygiene! Effective at Removing Plaque: Soft, high-quality bristles provide gentle vibration that removes 2x more plaque than a manual toothbrush. Plus, each Brusheez toothbrush comes with a replacement brush head to replace every 3 months, so you can keep their toothbrush dry and ensure that the bristles stay durable and effective! Certified Kids Safe: Our Brusheez kids electric toothbrush is a Parent Tested, Parent Approved award winner, completely BPA-free, and is certified safe for kids! Track Your Child's Progress: What child doesn’t love getting a gold star? Using the free brushing checklist included with this set, your child can earn 2 stars per day by remembering to brush morning and night. What You Get: Battery-powered children’s toothbrush, animal-themed brush cover, replacement brush head, rinse cup, 2-minute sand timer, stand, user manual, printed brushing chart, and industry-leading 5 Year Manufacturer's Warranty. See more product details
make your own luck (Ideology 2021) Wet Ingredients: Ink – Alcohol Espresso; Archival Distress Vintage Photo Crayons – Distress Pealed Paint Other – Collage Medium (matte); Embossing Dabber, Embossing Pen (brush), Fluid Retarder, Gesso (white) Paint – Distress Ground Espresso, Pealed Paint Dry Ingredients: Tags –Etcetera Tags Small & #8 Foundations –Mini Clipboard Paper – Backdrops (vol 2); Collage Tissue (entomology), Ephemera (expedition, and others), Kraft Stock (neutral), Layers (urban), Paper Dolls (singles), Scraps Worn Wallpaper Embossing Glaze – Distress Antique Linen, Fossilized Amber, Hickory Smoke, Tattered Rose, Peeled Paint Hardware – Adornments (lucky), Factory Tags, Gadget Gears, Gauge Frames, Hook Clasps, Industrial Gears, Machinery Heads, Mini Flair, Sprocket Gears, Tiny Clips, Vignette Hardware Other – Remnant Rubs (specimen), Tiny Lights, Wooden Spools Ribbon – Black Floral Wire, Eclectic Elements Thread Tools/Equipment: Other – Collage Brushers, Craft Paint Brush, Heat Tool, Media Mat, Palette (metal 6 well), Sandpaper, Steel Wool, Utility Knife This whole project is glazed and glazed – most of the project is coated with Distress Embossing Glaze (glaze type 1), and most of this has been glazed over again with Distress Paint combined with a fluid retarder (painted glaze, glaze type 2). I will be repeating the word “glaze” a lot, so I hope this doesn't get confusing. The #8 Etcetera Tag was covered with a piece of the new kraft stock in a neutral grey, with pieces of entomology collage tissue applied along what will be the bottom edge and sides. Once dry this was covered completely with the Distress Embossing Dabber and coated with Hickory Smoke Glaze. The small etcetera tag started with one of the backdrops from volume 2 featuring the gear blueprint and was layered with a small collage of ephemera (I love to give projects the pointy finger—my absolute favourite piece of ephemera). The whole thing was coated with collage medium, I always ensured lots of brushy strokes show, it adds texture and little places for the painted glaze (details on how this is made below) to catch and pool. The edges of everything paper here are scuffed with sandpaper and inked with Vintage Photo Distress Archival. I would like to let you know that my original intention was to attach an ideology clipboard clip to this base tag directly, with the #8 clipped under it, and it would have revealed this little collage… until the moment I knew I had to use this certain piece of Worn Wallpaper Scraps (one thing changed everything), so the clip became a clipboard. The base of the clipboard was covered with Worn Wallpaper Scraps, this layer was covered with another backdrop (vol. 2) which was torn on the edge to expose my favourite little bit of the Worn Wallpaper (I only wish there were more of these text edges in the package). The whole thing was coated with collage medium (lots of brushstrokes showing) and once dry, the surface was dabbed with some of the paint glaze, in several layers. The ‘ring’ stains were created using Espresso Alcohol Ink, running the ink nozzle along the lid and using the lid as a stamp to create the circles; a couple of these were misted with water while they were still wet to remove the exactness or sameness of the circles. In trying to maintain a limited and dingy colour palette, the ephemera and mini flair pieces were glazed in a few alternating layers of Antique Linen and Fossilized Amber Embossing Glaze, until they closely resembled the tones already layered on the clipboard, made matte with a little more steel wool. Machinery Heads, Sprocket Gears and Gadget Gears were combined to mimic the shapes found in the new and crazy amazingly detailed levels of the Industrial Gears. Faux Galvanized Metal I first did this technique for Creativation 2020, when the Embossing Glazes were shiny brand new! (see photos above) 1. Ideology pieces get a rough coat of white gesso—randomly thick and thin is all good. 2. Gesso is haphazardly removed using steel wool—keep lots of white in crevasses. 3. Ideology pieces are coated with Embossing Dabber, use a paintbrush to get in the nooks and crannies. 4. Apply Hickory Smoke Embossing Glaze and heat set. 5. While metal is still hot and heat tool running keep adding pinches of Embossing Glaze to build up darker areas (this was a little tricky with the Mini Hardware Pulls* &Mini Pulley Wheels* and Hook Clasp, and easy-peasy with the Vintage Clip* and with the gears and gauge frames 6. Let cool. They stay hot for longer than you might think. *pictured as part of the Creativation sample (photos above), not in this project. The metal Ideology pieces are glazed using the Faux Galvanized Metal technique (apart from the Lucky-Adornment and Tiny Clip) and matted with some steel wool. The Factory Tag digit “7” was filled in with Peel Paint Distress Crayon and tied to the clipboard clip using floral wire. The clip was dabbed with a drop of Espresso Alcohol ink on a felt applicator. At the same time, this alcohol ink was dabbed on the Tiny Clip. The “Paint Glaze” Mix 1 drop of Ground Espresso Distress paint with 5 drops of fluid retarder—make multiple batches as needed. I don’t recommend doubling up the ratios. The addition of fluid retarder instead of just diluting with water causes several crafty things to happen: 1. The open or working time you have to layer is well over an hour. 2. While it is still wet the pigments in the paint settle and you can see how and where they are pooling. 3. You can keep adding layers to darken the colour without visible paint rings or water lines. 4. There is lots of time to wipe away anything you do not like the look of and start again. 5. It looks like really old greasy, gunky, grungy goodness Once the all the Ideaolgy pieces we glued to the #8 tag; a little more Paint Glaze was dabbed around the edges of the pieces to make them appear more homogenous with the tag. The biggest drawback is that it will take overnight to fully cure what little paint is actually there and be dry enough to handle. Once dry if you sand with sandpaper or rub with steel wool, where the paint is very thin you get great chipping and flaking (best seen on the Gauge Frame) This Paper Doll from the Solos package was originally set aside for another project idea I had but, when I saw that arm and that hand were in the perfect position to 'pull the stings in making his own luck'… he was quickly reassigned. Using the Distress Embossing Pen with the felt tip he was coloured using Distress Embossing Glaze in sections; the white portions of his suit were glazed first using Peeled Paint, his face, and hands next using Tattered Rose, and lastly, the rest of him was glazed with Hickory Smoke. The slight bleed between the two lighter colours made me incredibly happy. With a little steel wool, he was made to look matte. The Lucky-Adornment was Dabbed with a little Peeled Paint Distress paint and some Espresso Alcohol ink to finish. This post contains affiliate links below. If you click on one of them, and make a purchase I’ll receive a commission.
Last year Brian grew some broom corn in the garden and he was going to learn to make brooms. He told me so! :-) The next thing I know he is telling me about a Sweep In (what the heck is that?) that is a 3 day deal in Mountain View, AR. Aaaaaahhhhh......Arkansas, that explains it! Just kidding...I LOVE Arkansas! I told him he needs to go - so he did. (Because he does as I say....HA HA !!!!!) He made the first few brooms in the pictures below. The one in his right hand (your left view) is my favorite. He put a piece of the broom stuff with seeds still on it, so it is more decorative. The other one is a real broom to be used. Not that they all can't be used... These are the smaller ones he made. A couple Pot Scrubbers, a couple Wisk brooms, and the one in his left hand (your right view) hanging the lowest is a Turkey Wing broom. A close up of my favorite broom from the first photo. I am going to hang this one up somewhere. It is a Hearth broom. Everything on all these brooms are all hand stitched. The only thing a machine helped with was wiring the tops and that was a machine patented in 1869! Brian got to run one by himself. :-) And get this, one of the fellow students in Brian's Hearth broom making class is the Chief Broom Maker at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. These two pieces came from the same broom making session and the Wisk broom in his left hand (your right view) is his very first one! After making the bigger one, he cut off the other end to make a Pot Scrubber/Cake Tester. This is the Pot Scrubber/Cake Tester. The short wired end is the pot scrubber, and the longer sticks are for checking cakes...just like we do with toothpicks. Just pick one off and poke it in the cake to see if it is done. Preferably chocolate thank you very much! ;-) This is the end of the pot scrubber side....it is wired tight and is very tough! One of Brian's Wisk brooms. If you click on it you can see the woven handle much better....he made this! Okay, technically this is a Hawk Wing broom because there are segmented spaces on the brushy part....but he messed up (OOPS!) and it is now a Wisk broom. Close up of his very first Wisk broom (red stitching) and his first Turkey Wing broom. Thomas thought it was not at all fair that the Broom Boy was getting his picture taken and his wasn't...he is the Kat King after all! Nakita says "Der her....my turn!" Hemi says "Don't hate me because I am beautiful!" Brian's Turkey Wing broom.... The rest of the pictures are from the weekend festival at the Ozark Folk Center. It is a village with broom making, candle making, blacksmiths.....you name it, they do it. Brian had such a great time and learned so much! He had a lot of pictures of the work benches too...I left those out because I can't even begin to explain what all they have on them. I call this the Harry Potter broom, but it is the broom from the Sorcerer's Apprentice.....isn't it cool how it stands up itself? I gotta have Brian make me one of these. I love old driftwood, but now I will be looking at it with new eyes. :-) Brian told me his goal for next Fall is to go handle hunting. Ha ha! Broom corn seed is very very small....and they were popping it! Brian said it had a nutty flavor and was very good. Here is one of the contraptions that squash the broom down so you can stitch it flat. (Brian is helping me label the photos correctly and the thing that squashes the broom is the Broom Press, and the big thing is the Broom Horse that you sit on to make the broom) A view of a home made contraption that squashes the broom corn flat to be stitched. It is made of regular sticks and check out the wing nuts. They are hand forged! You can see the tied wad of broom in the middle. You start with that then add other around it. One of the broom maker instructors in action - Little John. The thing at his feet is a spool of thread that you use to tie the tops of the brooms. Some of the people have large ones with several different colors. The broom corn can be dyed - they do it in a big vat. There will be a few pictures with a lot of color....the colorful pieces are put on the outside of the regular color. I love the twisted handle on this one, and the criss-cross of the color on the broom itself. The handle is sassafras root. Just enough color used to accent the broom... Creative people can even put designs on them, and check out the face on the top of the handle. The man that made this hand carves them and lives in the area. (Brian tells me the handle carving is a Tree Spirit. He doesn't remember the specifics at the moment, but it is from old German folklore) This would be my Fall broom. :-) YES! A broom for all season! Brian tells me it flies....hee hee! It will look great by my 'Witch Parking Only' sign. Yes, I really have one of these. I love the color on this one....very rich looking... The one hanging on the left has a deer antler handle. The one in the middle has a wrapped handle (you can see it better when you click on the photo to make it large). Selling their wares..... I love this picture! Lots of different types of brooms....but look on the wall between the windows. Just below the two bigger brooms is a baby broom! Isn't it the cutest darn thing? :-) Rolls of processed broom corn ready for broom making. I love buzzards! On the way down Brian saw these guys over a driveway. Aren't they great? :-) Candles in the making...... These are called Crumb Brushers and can also be used as Cake Testers like the pot scrubber up above. (Brian says they can also be used by seamstresses to pick up stray pieces of thread) Table decoration.....it reminds me of a Native American dance.... This one is actually called Dancer.... There were also people who made stuff out of the broom corn to decorate gourds. I have a huge bin of gourds! Brian will keep busy while I ride horses....hee hee! Oh, notice the big box of wine behind the gourd? A lot of trading goes on thru the weekend. :-) Gourds..... Turkey Wing brooms......(they used to use actual turkey wings....that is how these little guys got their name) I love these! Brian bought a couple of these and I think they are so cute! They are corn silkers! More corn silkers..... A funny sign Brian saw on the way down there.... Here are some more Pot Scrubbers. The other ones earlier had a long end and a short stubby end so they were Pot Scrubber/Cake Tester combos. Another Turkey Wing broom with an unfinished handle.... Another version of the Turkey Wing broom.... Both of these pictures are from inside the main Broom Shop at the Ozark Folk Center. Every broom is either made by the owner or his 17 year old daughter. This is a Marriage broom. Look at the double handle that joins the brooms and handle as one. Isn't it romantic? He had a great time and is looking forward to next year. A lot of the work tables he can make himself. And there is a lot of it that I have no idea where he will find what he needs......it is very old stuff and is stuff that is hard to find. Until later.....Karen and Tripp who thinks Brian needs to make him a Butt Scrubber broom!
